Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-30
WOMAN AND HONE.
WHY EGYPTIAN PRiNCESSeS WE'RE
FAMOUS FOR THEIR BEAUTY.
Treatment Of the Cronp-Women Of Fine
Tempsr-A Hindoo Home-The Odd and
End Taient-Home Made Remedies
Chility-Ehe Homestead.

Ct,ilitN-Ehe Homestead.
The hath of Isis has been known for
twenty five or thirty years. said an amateur
Psychologist. 1t was one of the best pieces
NJ translation and detective work that Seyf-
furth ever did. Nou should write to Samuel
Birch, of the British museum, and get him To
tell the story Of how il was discovered from
three piereS of papyri i'll three different mui-
seums. that seemed TO have no connection,
and two of which were in the hieratic writing.
The Egyptian princesses were renowned for
their beauty above all the women Of the
earth from the earliest records down TO Cleo
patrsS. time. As beautiful As a princess of
Egypt was the superlative of comparison.
No women in the world ever had such COM
pleNions such skins, and there is nothing in
the world to-day TO compare with the skins Of
mumi1ies of women taken from the tombs
This distinction lasted over a period Of 1900
years, and WAS commonly attributed 10 tie
hath Of ISIS which was preserved for them
with such jealous care; but it was really
more owing To inheritance and the climate.
united TO perfect health and phenomenal
CLEANLINESS. than TO the lotion. Yes, the lotion
had something TO do with it; but anybody
can test for themselves how much
There never was any secret about its COM
ponents. IL was made from lotus water and
the adipocere OF a rabbit. which WAS n symbol
of the air. The bath had phallic meaning
and was the survival of some phailic worship
Ii was the marriage OF air and water, through
the lotus. The trouble was to get the adj
pocere. None but the tIemphian and SalSan
priests knew how to c hvert the dead rabbit
into adipocere. This Gecret ther kept, and to
this day ii is not known how they did it, al
though there are q dozen ways now by which
tt can be done. The lotus water was made by
distillstion, as rose water Is now made sni
was in as common use among the Egyptian
women ross water is with the American.
The sdipocere WAS prepared in some way by
which the sacchsrizsd oil was extracted, max
ing il identical with our glycerine, by remov-
ing the waNy portion Of the fatty matter.
II the bath was used Sy any of the Byzantine
enpresses, they probably used the sdipocere
known TO them. which WAS not Of rabbit, but
Of human beings and horses. II could not
have been unrefined. and mixed with lotus
water in the waIy state. Ii WAS better than
nothing. perhaps.
How is all this knowni Lebig took the
trouble 10 verify it. to settle the disputes about
the TRANSACTIONS. Lotus water Is easy enough
10 ge;, a. il is a regular preparation in the
Past for the skin, corresponding 10 Florida
water and bsy rum with us He took the
trouble 10 make the bath first with rabbit adj
poceie, and then with the refined product. It's
sweet oil, 50 that he obtained the identical
hath of Isis | have q full account of il
somewhere. and of his report. He gave it to
his friends TO experiment with, and they found
thsformer good and the latter excellent He
anHrward made 1t from our rose water and
glycRrine. and this was much better than
.itiRr of the others. We do not know mach
morenbout astronomy than the Egyptians, il
We - 30 much, but in chemistry We beat
the Vut Of sight.
-fAe proportions. They vary. To keep
the skin "a, one-t third of giycerine TO two
thirds Of rose water, and this was probably
the proportion in the bath of Isis as its
symbol was thus divided: but Liebig's eX-
periments showed that half and half were
about the proper proportions when bringing
the skin into condition. He made eight coul-
binations, each of different proportions, and
the simplest was the hest.
~Of course l Use il. Ten cents worth lasts
me a month, as l use il only on my hands and
AT night. You see for yourself bow tran
sparent and white and soft it keeps the skin.
Mine is merely five cents worth OF the rose
water OF commerce Cmade from four drops of
rose oil TO an ounce Of distilled water, and
five cents worth Of ordinary glycerine, but
by using the genuine rose water made by
distillation and the chemically pure glycerine
o,H.lined by q second refining-which cannot
he had at every druggist's-you will get a
mu"li better article that the bath Of Isis
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